Former President Donald Trump last night announced that he is running for president a third time in the 2024 election. Only a few hours have elapsed but the hosannas of praise you might expect to follow such an announcement seem somewhat slow in coming.
We have plenty of time for these encomiums to emerge, and they may well appear in the next few days. Let's keep track to see if Trump still has the magic, shall we?
I heard Mike Pence make a thinly veiled presidential pitch in an interview with Bret Baier this evening, while plugging his new book. Obviously, Pence has to explain why he supported Trump in 2016 but no longer does so.
He has worked out an explanation which he rattles off in glib fashion; it is well rehearsed but ultimately not convincing. While Pence would probably be an adequate president, I don't think he has the charisma to get elected. He is sort of the anti-Trump.
